Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First half-hour.--Harvard wins the toss and selects the wind. Arnold kicks off for Yale, sending a long kick down the field. Leeds springs a trick not known at Yale: he kicks the ball back again. Yale again kicks and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks the goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field. Yale kicks off. Seamans almost runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries...
...tackles strongly. The runner is stopped and the whole Yale team piles on him. When they are taken off the ball is found a flattened sheet of rubber at the bottom. It is blown up again and the game proceeds. Blanchard gets the ball and runs in for a touchdown. The goal is missed...
...Yale, 1 goal, 1 touchdown; Harvard...
...first six games, 170 points were scored as against 16 by opponents; Williams made a field goal, while Holy Cross gained a touchdown on a muffed punt, and Cornell another by straight plunging against a wholly substitute eleven. The totals to date, including the Princeton and Brown games are: Harvard, 210; opponents, 16. The eleven, by recording a greater number of points than all but one other Eastern aggregation, has thereby worked up a reputation for being a great scoring machine. The contrast with Yale is striking, the totals in her case being: Yale, 121; opponents, 19. Further statistical examination...
...fight against tremendous odds that gave Harvard the victory. In the first seven minutes of the game, Yale had scored 14 points; with only a minute left to play the Blue still led, 17 to 12. Then by a series of terrific line plunges Harvard went over for a touchdown which won the game. That game will be to 1916 what the Freshman baseball game with Yale has been to 1914. Seniors still remember the desperate ninth inning rally which converted seemingly sure defeat to a tie. The enthusiasm with which the men in the stands came to the support...